I am not familiar enough with the vernacular used for command line functions so please bare with me.

I need to have a bash script that fires when a user logs in; if the user == 'username' I need to do some maintenance on their directory under his username directory. Move files, zip etc.

What are the functions I would use?

Thank you in adavance.

I'd rather bear with you than bare. :}

Depends: what's the desired end result? Is there a
possibility that users will maliciously/non-intentionally
undo what you're trying to achieve?

The answer will depend on those things.

Trivially you could put things in the users
~/.bash_(login|profile) file ... you could put
them in /etc/profile or /etc/profile.d/myMaintenance.sh


Cheers,
Tink

The 'user' is a Scheduled Task from a Windows Server that logs in every hour on the 15 mark and downloads forms that have been filled out by users in the company's web server (FreeBSD box).

When this task is complete, and I am now thinking the bash script should run when the fetch user logs out, as I need to perform some cleanup e.g. zip up all the files that were downloaded in a dir under his user directory and move them to a different directory under his user directory and then remove all the files from the first directory.

Reading what you wrote here: Does that mean if I place my script in one of those directories it will fire when he logs in, how about when he logs out?

Thank you again for your time.

If the fetch user logs in and uses bash and logs out then you could create ~fetch/.bash_logout and put you code in there. For more about bash login and logout files including .bash_logout see here. Maybe don't bother! Here's all it says: "When a login shell exits, Bash reads and executes commands from the file ~/.bash_logout, if it exists".

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